While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. ‘Do you help your mother clean up the house?’ I asked one girl of seven. ‘No,’ she sweetly replied, ‘I help make the mess.’ It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it.’
Children Quotes
The certainty with which the effective prohibition of incest has been declared leads one to look for the evidence these authors might have for their assertions. Yet such a search soon proves quite fruitless. . . consider the evidence for the opposite hypothesis: That it is incest itself-and not the absence of incest-that has been […]
My wife and I have five children; the reason we have five children is because we do not want six.
There is hardly an imaginable form of genital assault that is not regularly performed on children.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Nothing can be more graphic of our hatred of children than an infant mortality rate of American babies in some of our largest cities that is close to that of a Third World country, or than the fact that we tolerate the regular use of poisonous drugs by millions of our teenagers. That we choose […]
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
